Design and implement production-grade backend systems in Python, collaborating closely with peer staff engineers on design decisions
Contribute to shared architecture decisions across services, APIs, and data models
Help the team evolve and scale a fast-moving platform without sacrificing correctness or reliability
Partner with the team to raise the bar on reliability, observability, and failure handling
Mentor engineers and raise the backend engineering bar
Communicate clearly across backend, product, and frontend

8+ years of backend engineering experience
Deep, production-level experience in Python
Experience designing and evolving distributed systems
Strong API design and data modeling skills
Experience owning systems end-to-end (design → rollout → production operations)
Experience operating services in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
Strong judgment around reliability, performance, and failure modes
Experience with data-heavy or high-throughput backend systems (preferred)
Multi-tenant SaaS architecture and data isolation patterns (preferred)
Cryptography fundamentals (JWT, signing, key management, PKI concepts) (preferred)
Background in privacy, security, or compliance-adjacent domains (preferred)

Staff Engineer

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